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Ember had awoken once more. It was her second day in the old hospital, and nothing had changed except for the curtains. Earlier, they had surrounded her bed like a fortress, but now it was like she was unprotected and open to the world.
She looked at the window, trying to peer through it, but being unsuccessful due to a thin layer of frost. Ember moved her sight to the bed beside her. It was empty, but the sheets were still used.
"Maybe he just left", she had said, trying to stand on her numb feet. A folded piece of paper fell to the cold, tile floor. Ember grabbed a corner of it, unfolding it slowly. The paper was thick and had a yellow, watercolored flower painted onto it. Below it in messy handwriting, a note was written.
"Daffodils are
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She crumpled up the thoughtful illustration and shoved it in the bottom of her pocket. To her, this note was a meaningless bother, but deep down, she felt almost grateful for a bit of attention.
Shaking this thought, Ember walked out of the hospital ward and towards a bathroom. The restroom was deserted. It was dusty, dirty, and cold. She looked through the grimy mirror, seeing a complete stranger. Before her third year of college, Ember was healthy and beautiful, but now it was the opposite. Her face was sunken and pale, her lips were dry, her hair was messy, and her arms were as thin as bones. She looked dead.
Ember quickly caught something in the corner of her eye and jumped. A cockroach fell from the ceiling and was lying on it's back,
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She walked around until she stumbled upon a vast dining hall converted into a cafeteria for the hospital staff and patients. Inside, groups of people sat conversing about small things like what they did yesterday or what medication they have now.
Ember walked to an empty table, sitting her head down onto the clean smelling tabletop. Her thoughts slowly melted away like a candle wick burning into hot wax.
"Hi, there", a voice said brightly, waking her from her daze. "Remember me?"
She looked up, gazing at a boy around her age who sported a look like a young Francisco Lachowski.
"No", she said before putting her head back down.
She groaned as he sat down across from her.
"Come on, don't be like that", he said attempting to get her attention. "Listen, I know you don't like me but it's better to have friends here."
"Really?", she asked sarcastically as she lifted her head. "Why's that?"
He dramatically looked both ways while leaning in to whisper.
"Well, you see those two women in pink bathrobes over there", he said while nodding his head in their direction. "Those old crones love starting gossip as much as they love jell-o for dessert. One look at you, and they'd ruin your image here for
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Before going to bed that night, I looked in the mirror... I saw only my face staring back - and that it would always be this ordinary face - I began to cry. " This is what the daughter felt after all of the pressure her mother instilled on her to be someone she is not. It did not help her in any way; it just caused her to breakdown. In fact, with every new test, the daughter just found something new she could not do.
The narrator and her physician husband, John, rented out a majestic, colonial mansion for the summer. The narrator is in love with the house and cannot wait to spend her summer here. Her husband John has high hopes that a change of scenery will help her recover from a recent phase of depression. He results in a treatment called the “Rest Cure,” a treatment discovered by S. Weir Mitchell. The narrator finds the house queer, but gives it a chance. She becomes upset with John due to his choice of a bedroom for her. Once she had a look around the house she desired the downstairs room with a window overlooking the gardens. However, John argues that the room is too small and places her in the nursery room. It is a large room with barred windows that allow plenty of sunshine through. The narrator finds the room appalling due to the chaotic, yellow wallpaper on the walls. The narrator is imprisoned, unable to have control over her own mind. "...t...
Emely strolls into Saint Joseph’s Hospital with a smile on her face. She notices all the people around her. As she sees that all of the people are either missing limbs or are covered with white bandages, her smile grow larger.
I had just walked into Annie’s room to find her screaming in pain. I ran to find the supervising nurse and rushed back to comfort Annie. Shortly after, the nurse came, fed Annie her medications, and walked out. Not a word was said. But I knew Annie was afraid, confused, upset; managing deep pain in her body. I knew she did not want to be alone, so I stayed beside her for a while, holding her hand until she fell asleep, telling her she would be okay. ================
As I walked down the corridor I noticed a man lying in a hospital bed with only a television, two dressers, and a single window looking out at nothing cluttering his room. Depression overwhelmed me as I stared at the man laying on his bed, wearing a hospital gown stained by failed attempts to feed himself and watching a television that was not on. The fragments of an existence of a life once active and full of conviction and youth, now laid immovable in a state of unconsciousness. He was unaffected by my presence and remained in his stupor, despondently watching the blank screen. The solitude I felt by merely observing the occupants of the home forced me to recognize the mentality of our culture, out with the old and in with the new.
Her hair was not curly, and now it lay in lank lifeless blocks on both sides of her suddenly pale face. It was ugly as sin--she had known it would be ugly as sin" (44). Even though it
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She reached her hands up to her eyes to wipe away the sleep. She twisted to stretch her back, feeling the soreness of falling after running into Caesar. She replayed the conversation that they had yesterday. Caesar was lying, she knew how much he needed her. At Caesar's other life he was abused and he had just recently gotten out of depression. If she left and she set him into a backward spiral she wouldn’t be able to live with herself. Noticing the late time, she pulled herself out of her thoughts and lazily pushed away the rough, vintage comforter and tiptoed across the cold wooden floor over to Ben's bed. She shook him awake trying to be gentle as he awoke softy to reveal his chocolate brown eyes. Ben let out a soft groan and rolled
Hayley sighed and leaned back in the uncomfortable waiting room chair. She had been at the hospital since three in the morning, and needless to say, it was beginning to take it's toll on her. She hated the hospital with a passion, mostly because everything seemed so dreary, so sad. She might have went home hours ago, but she didn't want to leave her poor friend all alone. Of course others had come, however, they were more there for a story.
A puzzled expression crossed his features. ‘Yes…I remember. Of course, I remember. She is…’ his voice trailed off as he tried to think.
Margot’s classmates do not see the real beauty inside her because all they are looking at is her looks on the outside. Judging people how they look can be hurtful to people not only on the outside but on the
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Slipping Back through the Glass I sat in my room on the floor, waiting for Emma. In my lap was my sword and a handful of crumpled flower petals that I must have grabbed from somewhere along the way. I lay there for a while, listening with all my might for the sound of footsteps downstairs. Emma finally popped through from the other side, holding her large stack of books. Looking dazed and a little disorientated.
She replied, still very confused. "Oh." He replied, very plainly.
"Oh, I'm sorry. " he looked like he felt a little bad for bringing it up. " Nah, don't worry about it. Now, why're you in